Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:42:25 -0600 From: Programmer in Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: concerning flash under freebsd Message-ID: <20100617074225.8pcs9r9ou8gk04o8@mail.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> In-Reply-To: <4C1A045F.6020103@onetel.com> References: <AANLkTikVilkrvnNMTQ_wvB8AzX31_sUvpcykcv07E3Wf@mail.gmail.com> <20100615211740.GA50967@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100615154956.cfz6ip454w8gcco4@mail.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <20100617081156.8441dc67.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100617035140.x8bpf02348g4o8ok@mail.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4C1A045F.6020103@onetel.com>
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Quoting Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>: > Programmer in Training wrote: >> Quoting Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>: >> >>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training =20 >>> <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote: <snip> >> That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen =20 >> over Theora. That along with mpeg-la having put out a press release =20 >> saying it won't charge royalties for "free" uses of some of it's =20 >> patents several months ago[0], while I would love for Theora to =20 >> have won out as the standard, once again corporate interest (this =20 >> time a big push from Apple, from what I understand) has won out. > > And Mozilla won't use H264. Also add into the mix that Google has just > bought VP8 and open sourced it. Mozilla supports VP8 but Apple is > already dissing it: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/20/apple-steve-jobs-vp8= -patent > > So I think we have a very long way to go before we can stop using flash > for web based video. Entirely my point. > (According to wikipedia Theora is a fork of VP3 which the developer On2 > released some time ago. VP6 made into macromedia flash codec. So On2's > codecs have a long history of video on the web.) That would seem to be supported by the Theora website[0]. >> won't support it. But that's all irregardless to the OPs question =20 >> of bugginess on FreeBSD. If the Linux emulation isn't enough and =20 >> there is no option but to switch to an entirely different platform, =20 >> why even provide such an option? Linux emulation takes up a lot of =20 >> resources (space wise on the drive). > > Flash video works absolutely fine here and there is a lot of great > content and interesting and entertaining material out there. I'm really > grateful to the FreeBSD developers for getting it working so well :) > > FreeBSD muji2.config 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar > 24 11:51:43 GMT 2010 root@muji2.config:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > firefox-3.5.8,1 > linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 > flashblock 1.5.13 # This may be a critical feature of a successful > flash intallation. Aside from npviewer not killing itself on exit and some sync issues, =20 I've not had any problems, either. The need for Linux emulation, =20 though, still stinks (mostly from a disk space pov). [0]: http://www.theora.org/faq/#VP3 --=20 Yours in Christ, PIT All original content (C) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed.
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